 Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light...  British and Foreign State Papers - Page 234by Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1868Full view - About this book
 | William James Potter - Sermons, American - 1895 - 474 pages
...rise with the occasion . . . We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. . . . No personal significance or insignificance can spare...trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. . . . We — even we here — hold the power and bear the... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 312 pages
...anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget... | |
 | General Federation of Women's Clubs - 1922 - 686 pages
...we must think anew and act anew. "We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We shall nobly save or meanly lose (lie last, best hope... | |
 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 pages
...Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments). He concluded his message with this impassioned appeal: We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 pages
...citizens, we cannot escape history! We of this Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Born 1814. Died 1869. congress and this administration, will be remembered...trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Flags - 1900 - 508 pages
...American heart — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. — Daniel Webster. We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration...trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget... | |
 | William C. King - Biography - 1900 - 680 pages
...reformer might have done. Hear him as he pleads for the support of Congress. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility.... | |
 | Frederick William Holls - Arbitration (International law) - 1900 - 606 pages
...statesman, Abraham Lincoln, ' we cannot escape history. \Ve, of this Conference and of this Committee, will be remembered in spite of ourselves — no personal...or insignificance can spare one or another of us.' chapter v Let me ask the honorable members of this Committee Speech of Mr. to approach the question... | |
 | John Watson Foster - United States - 1900 - 556 pages
...wisdom, and, with an evident consciousness of the greatness of the deed, he closed with these words : " The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best... | |
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